Nick Kellet is the co-founder of Listly, a product that helps bloggers & publishers engage their ready with continuously evolving lists. According to Listly, 30% of all content on the web is built around lists. But these lists can quickly get stale and don’t do much to engage the audience. So Listly, allows bloggers, content marketers and publishers to create interactive lists which they can embed on their own site or syndicate across other sites. In 1999, Nick sold his software product called AnswerSets to Business Objects for over $8 million. A few years later, he came up with the idea for a board game while talking to his daughter. Without knowing anything about the toys & games business, he jumped into the deep and launched a new board game which has won multiple awards and sold almost 100,000 copies worldwide.

Adam Dicker is a serial entrepreneur and former VP of GoDaddy. He's a prolific domainer with a portfolio of over 30,000 domains. He's sold many of them for 7 figures and one for 8 figures! He own a number of online businesses, including DNForum, the most popular domain name forum on the internet, with over 500,000 members.

Benji Rogers is the founder and president of PledgeMusic, an online music platform that allows artists to pre-sell, market and distribute recordings, music videos and concerts directly to their audience. He's an independent musician from London, who has been making his own records since 1999. He founded PledgeMusic in 2009 as a way to engage directly with music super fans who drive the bulk of spending in the music industry. He came up with the idea for PledgeMusic while lying on an air mattress in his mother’s spare bedroom. Almost 6 years later, the company has over 50 employees and has offices strategically around the world to support artists and fans. In 2013, he was recognized on Billboards 40 Under 40 Power Players list and in 2014 at MUSEXPO International Music Awards he won Digital Executive of the Year.

In this episode we talk about:

Why entrepreneurs should meditate. And it's not just about being less stressed.

Benji's moment of insight and how he came up with the business idea literally overnight. * Why sharing your idea and being will to ask (seemingly stupid) questions is important.

Why you should expect to face more rejection and what you can do about it.

How Benji became a startup advisor and first thing he tells other founders to do.

And the hardest thing he wishes he'd known 6 years ago when he started the business.

Aaron Epstein is the co-founder of Creative Market, an online platform that lets you sell and buy handcrafted, mouse-made design content such as fonts and graphics. He launched his first software product called Color Schemer when he was still in college and went on to grow that into a 6-figures a year business. A few years later he met his co-founders and combined forces to work on an online creative community called COLORlovers and eventually went through Y-Combinator. COLORlovers grew into a community with over a million users. In 2011, they launched Creative Market and raised $2.3M dollars in funding and 3 years later, sold Creative Market to Autodesk for an undisclosed amount. In this episode youre going to learn 7 proven strategies for building an online marketplace. Its basically what Creative Market did to launch their business. And even if you arent planning to build a marketplace, you will still get a ton of value from this episode and takeaway some useful lessons that you could apply to just about any software product.